Company Offers Employees Six Days Extra Leave For Not Smoking

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2017-11-02T01:05:22Z

A Japanese company is offering non-smokers an additional six days annual leave to make up for the time off smokers take for cigarette breaks.

“One of our non-smoking staff put a message in the company suggestion box earlier in the year saying that smoking breaks were causing problems,” Hirotaka Matsushima, a spokesman for Tokyo-based marketing firm Piala Inc. told The Telegraph.

The company is on the 29th floor – meaning a cigarette break takes an estimated 15 minutes.

It’s hoped this will encourage employees to quit smoking so they can take up the extra days of leave.